Colossos - Kampf der Giganten vs El Toro

Vintage is the reversed stat — the older ride wins. Every number here is the same one printed on the card; see /methodology for how Build Cost and Throughput are sourced.

The verdict

El Toro takes it 4–1, and the 1 Colossos - Kampf der Giganten does win is the whole of its case.

Colossos - Kampf der Giganten is a wooden Prefabricated Wooden Coaster (Plug & Play) coaster at Heide Park, DE, built by Intamin. El Toro is a wooden Prefabricated Wooden Coaster (Plug & Play) coaster at Six Flags Great Adventure, US, built by Intamin.

They come from the same drawing office: Intamin. That makes the gaps below a question of brief and budget rather than engineering house style.

Both are wooden-track, so nothing here is the usual steel-versus-wood argument in disguise.

They are near-contemporaries — 2001 and 2006 — so they were competing for the same riders when they opened.

Stat by stat

• Height goes to El Toro at 181 ft against 164 ft — clearly ahead.
• Speed goes to El Toro at 70 mph against 68 mph — ahead by a whisker.
• Inversions splits them not at all: both read 0.
• Throughput goes to El Toro at 1,500 rph against 1,030 rph — a long way clear.
• Build Cost goes to El Toro at 28 $m against 20.5 $m — a long way clear.
• Vintage is reversed, so Colossos - Kampf der Giganten's 2001 takes it from El Toro's 2006 — 5 years in it.